At the same time, skyrocketing rates of kidney failure, caused by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, make it urgent to offer more - and more sophisticated - transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

For example, you all know that the only treatment for some diseases is to get an organ transplant: a kidney transplant, or a liver transplant is the only life extending intervention that can be done for some kinds of diseases.

你们都知道,有些疾病只能,通过器官移植来治疗,肾移植,肝移植是在某些疾病的治疗中,唯一能够延长生命的手段

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In addition,the study revealed that minority children had a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, asthma,certain cancers, and even success rates for treatment of kidney and heart diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07